ARM Tool Chain Selection
* Neon and Vectorising improvements
* Link time optimizations
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Essential
- Drafter:
- Marcin Juszkiewicz
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Richard Earnshaw
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for maverick
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
maverick-alpha-3
- Started by
- Loïc Minier
- Completed by
- Loïc Minier
Whiteboard
doko suggested:
* maybe to merge some generic aspects into https:/
* the armel arch will still want to use in-sync tools with other arches
* still want to experiment with different optimisations for ARM to see what we can achieve
* discuss gold, openjdk, llvm somewhere here?
llvm has some outstanding issues for v7/Thumb-2 which would need to be addressed at some point:
* https:/
2010-07-24, lool: postponed binutils items; no binutils tree has been created; that might happen, but isn't critical to success here; closed a bunch of WIs, in practice this spec happened in https:/
Status:
Done
Work Items:
[doko] ppa test rebuild of maverick/i386 using g++4.4 as default C++ compiler and libstdc++6 built from gcc-4.5: DONE
CS to provide binutils 2.21 build by end of June: POSTPONED
CS to export SVN repos for GCC and binutils (to track updates): POSTPONED
[doko] decide whether to take 4.4 CS for arm+x86+powerpc, or for all archs: DONE
publish gcc-4.4 pristine packages: DONE
CS binutils to be taken on all architectures if they pass muster with Matthias generally: POSTPONED
ensure ARM assembler is building with current OpenJDK: POSTPONED
